Re: How intelligent are flies?

Bought a cheese and tomato roll and it tasted a bit iffy. Checked inside and found mould on the tomato. Took it back to the counter and was given another - but checked it again after I had sat down only to find a dead fly in it and no, I didn't eat it anyway!

Re: How intelligent are flies?

Perhaps they can sense your intent "in the air" somehow. Their survival depends on leaving you alone when you get the fly swatter. You got to figure that humans are only about a million years old - flies are over 300 million years old. They could be pretty darned smart.

Re: How intelligent are flies?

As a home brewer, there is nothing wrong with the poo of yeast - it all depends how you process it. Not that I would but the Japanese have been using human waste in their gardens for centuries. Give me horse droppings every time!

Consider the 'water off a dinosaur's back' argument where.... "Unlike humans, who have been on Earth for a tiny fraction of the 186 million years that dinosaurs ruled this planet, the beasts were here far longer than we have ever been. In that long span of time, it is very likely that the dinosaurs have drunk all the water available back then, and all the water available now is simply water that has passed through a dinosaur's kidneys making its way through the never-ending water cycle"

You could of course go nearer in time and distance and pay a visit to your local 'water treatment' works.